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If you're a serious search hound who often clicks through to
Wikipedia pages that Google digs up, then you'll love Googlepedia.
This free Firefox add-on splits your Google page in half: On the
left are your regular Web results, and on the right (where AdWords
would normally appear), you're presented with a Wikipedia article
based on Google's top result.

Of course, typing "Wikipedia"--followed by a subject--directly
into Firefox's Location Bar is just as easy, but you don't get to
scroll through Google links at the same time. And usefully,
Googlepedia also lets you expand, shrink or hide the area that an
article is viewed in.

By default, the add-on presents internal Wikipedia links as
clickable Google searches, though you can toggle this in its
preferences. You can also change the default Wikipedia
language.

Articles from the open source encyclopedia appear surprisingly
soon after Google's own always-speedy results. A good thing, as
Firefox seems to take a slight performance hit for the second or so
an article takes to load.

Note: The author has recently released an early
port of the add-on for Google's Chrome browser,
and mentions that Safari and Konqueror
versions are planned. This link takes you to Mozilla.org, where you
can download the latest version of the software.

--Danny Allen

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